Sadly, I agree with both of you. In a perfect world, they should have been disarmed, cuffed and booked. In the world we live in, they probably made the right call. A bunch of blowhards spouting off and going home with a minimum of publicity or an armed confrontation that ends up on every television in the country.LSUTiger wrote:TxRVer wrote:The threats were aimed toward the cops rather than the public. They would have loved it if the cops had tried to make arrests. It would have added fuel to the current fire.
The cops kept things peaceful, which was exactly the right thing to do at a time when relations with the black community are on edge.
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They need to be held to the same standards as anyone else.
Im still trying to figure out all the outrage behind a jail cell suicide, though. She tried before, she was obviously a cutter based on the autopsy and she didn't appear all that mentally stable to begin with.